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  1. Burns

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Hair dye, make up, and weight all make a hell of a difference in how old someone looks. Keeping a healthy and active life throughout the years also makes a huge difference. You can see the age under Rudd's eyes and on his neck, where it's harder to apply the smoothing make up. There is now 40+...
  2. Burns

    Disco Elysium

    I couldn't imagine trying to play this game from the couch, on a console. It looks like it was designed for PC primarily and the crisper text you get on a monitor. Not only that, your 60 inch TV at 6 foot is probably a decent chunk smaller, in your field of vision, than my 28 inch monitor is at...
  3. Burns

    Stellaris

    I mostly meant how the ships are loaded out, like if you use hangers, in your fleets, as well. Outside of fighting the Grey Host with PD, I just switched between Laser and Kinetic, depending on tech levels, and always ignored hangers. As for star bases, I assumed that they weren't counted (or...
  4. Burns

    Stellaris

    I thought Hangers were a one and done, or had a really slow replenishment rate. So when the strike craft got killed, you were basically SoL. How do you build your fleets then, and what traits do you fish for on Admirals?
  5. Burns

    Stellaris

    The great Khan is a bitch if he comes at you too early, I think most people end up submitting and becoming a Vassal until that Khan dies and throws everything into turmoil. The players that play un-modded vanilla on the hardest two difficulties may have better advice, but my border defense...
  6. Burns

    Wheel of Time

    While seasons 1 to 4 of GoT stand far above all the rest (even if they are practically ruined by season 8), I liked both Legend of the Seeker (2008) and Merlin (2008 from BBC). Honorable mention: Camelot (Eva Green's glorious tits (NSFW, obviously) add some bonus points)
  7. Burns

    The Green Knight (2020)

    As an aside, you know Cosa Nostra was Sicilian, right? In the case of Andy Garcia, there were probably only a handful of Sicilian looking actors with a sufficient resume to be considered for one of the most popular movie franchise ever made. I didn't much like him in the role, but mostly...
  8. Burns

    The Animated GIF Thread

  9. Burns

    Ladysmith Black Mambazo School of Music

    That's exactly how I found them. After building some high quality speakers for my computer, I wanted to try some lossless streaming music, and gave Tidal a trial (after procrastinating a few years on it).
  10. Burns

    Ladysmith Black Mambazo School of Music

    For me, this is as much about age, as anything else. New bands are still making music that you would probably like, it is just incredibly difficult to find them. All the mainstream pop is what pop has always been, mostly shit with a few catchy but shallow tunes. As I grow older, I'm just not...
  11. Burns

    The Green Knight (2020)

    I have seen 90% of The Duke's movies made from 1945 onward, but only 3 or so, from his catalog, previous to that. I remember bits and pieces of The Conqueror, so I probably caught it on AMC or TCM as a kid, when they would do tribute marathons to various actors. It didn't make much of an impression.
  12. Burns

    Stellaris

    I guess if you are keeping your ships up to date, it wouldn't be a loss (or a small one, if it was). It probably only felt like a huge cost, because of how I play. My early game usually tends to fall into aggressively exploring then expanding into choke points, and maximize star bases at those...
  13. Burns

    Stellaris

    Doesn't the grey scourge have 100% shield penetration on all their nanobot weapons, along with a bunch of motherships with gobs of "fighters"? Last game I went for opening an L-gate, I rebalance my fleets to armor, hull, and a decent amount of point defense/faster tracking weapons, right before...
  14. Burns

    The Video Thread

    2009: 2021 (with bonus cold shock penalty, if they had failed):
  15. Burns

    Tenet (2020)

    She was in a great mini series called The Night Manager, if you are looking for more, from her.
  16. Burns

    Car ?'s

    I would assume that LLR doesn't want to pay for the amount of data it would use, by hosting video files on this website. Therefor you would need to upload the video to a host, and then hotlink it here. You could even make it into a "gif" by using sites like Giphy or Imgur, instead of...
  17. Burns

    The Video Thread

    Masterful engineering this: Tesla's car battery went dead, so he had to spend an hour, just to access it, and get it on a trickle charger.
  18. Burns

    Total War: Warhammer

    New (Tower) Defense Tactical Map mode (8 min video): Short developer commentary Promo (6:45 min video):
  19. Burns

    New World

    They have a rested system that builds up, the longer you stay offline. I think it caps at 1 full level of XP and it works similar to WoW, in that quests may not get bonus XP (I did not pay close attention to what rested affects).
  20. Burns

    Castlevania

    Season 4 is available now. The first episode starts with a recap, and is then picked up following Trevor and Sypha. The quality was consistent with the previous seasons, in regard to their story line.
  21. Burns

    New World

    That's not what people usually mean when they use the word classes, in accordance with MMOs. A class based system is like EQ or WoW, where you pick a class, and all your skills and ability options are set according to that class. A skill based system is like Ultima Online or Elder Scrolls, where...
  22. Burns

    Best movie of the past 20 years?

    1. LOTR: The Two Towers 2. The Departed 3. No Country for Old Men 4. Gangs of New York The Martian was alright, but I never had the urge to rewatch it. Mad Max is great, but it will never approach the rewatchablity of a whole host of other movies, for me.
  23. Burns

    Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition

    IMO the best way to replay them is with the Baulders Gate :EE Trilogy. It imports everything into one long game in the BG2 engine. There are two options: Option 1 (an installer that does most of the work for you): Last time I played I think I used this tool to add a few more mods, like a more...
  24. Burns

    The Video Thread

    Making historically accurate rope for antique sailing ships.
  25. Burns

    Justice League (2017)

    The Atlanta TV show is actually pretty good. I haven't seen much black comedy like it; it may be on par with the first Friday movie (but not so 90s). It does a decent job at poking fun at black culture and everyone trying to make it as a rapper. Season 1 was the best season, so if you don't like...
  26. Burns

    Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous

    Official release date set (September 2), along with a new beta build.
  27. Burns

    The Astronomy Thread

    Looked up the Lagrange points to see if we have any other sats out there (other than the L1 sun monitor DSCOVR) , before Webb (we do), and ran into the NASA write up on Webb. They have a video of the path out to L2 (with corresponding setup steps) and orbit at L2. I guess I never thought about...
  28. Burns

    What vehicle do you drive?

    Oh, sorry, looks like I skipped a few important words; I thought the first part was about removing the previous shit from the hood and that cost $1500. Then they charged another $1500 to put on a Ceramic coat after removing and detailing it ( for 500 more dollars). My bad. So yea, looks like he...
  29. Burns

    What vehicle do you drive?

    I thought the ceramic "wrap" was microns thin and sprayed on like paint, or applied like wax/sealent. The word wrap, that I am familiar with, refers to a vinyl product that applies to the vehicle as a film; it can be a pure protective layer, like Clearbra, or a decal, like the big Jag that was...
  30. Burns

    What vehicle do you drive?

    There are a few paint chip fixing kits that try to fill the divot in, that you could try. A bunch of the Corvette Forum guys seem to recommend Dr. ColorChip for its combination of price and "ease" of use. There are also more involved kits that are more expensive, as an alternative. If you want...
  31. Burns

    Star Wars general purpose movie stuff

    It is unfortunate that Ventress is dead in current cannon, but I can see her being retcon resurrected, if, for no other reason than to try to appease the KK faction with a strong popular semi-darkside woman.
  32. Burns

    Star Wars general purpose movie stuff

    Psh, I have never paid for a Star Wars movie or TV show outside of the cable/Netflix subscription that played them (or a rental from Blockbuster / borrowed DvDs from friends). Additionally, it will take more than 1 poster and some Doomcock rumors to convince me that they are truly going to...
  33. Burns

    Star Wars general purpose movie stuff

    No Ray, no Fen, no Poe, no chubby Asian lady, no Ren, no Stimpy, no Jar Jar, no Pansexual Lando, no Fembot (Rogue One). The poster looks good to me. If they had replaced the Bad Batch with the Mando fighting something, all would be well, as all the best Star Wars would be represented (I guess...
  34. Burns

    Shadow and Bone

    They do cover this in the show, but just with a single line of dialog, I think. My biggest nitpick was actually with the sound. I had issues understanding some of the actors, due to how they had the audio set up for the show (or at least how it played on my various systems). The dialog was...
  35. Burns

    Stellaris

    What pops does this really start to get bad in the vanilla game? My Necroid's slave race is at 213 pop and they currently cost 116 points to reproduce, but I have 200+ mods running... The reddit thread linked above lists a couple ways to fix this: Ironman achievement compatible, keeping it...
  36. Burns

    Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)

    How pissed would you be if Bree Lawlson was playing the Silver Surfer, though? They had to go with Capt. Marvel.
  37. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Well, you have convinced me! Random powers it is!
  38. Burns

    Car ?'s

    A real racer on the twisty track? Probably! All the gearheads I used to hang around with went for HP, HP, and more HP...and then their cars end up breaking various parts every six months or so. They sure sounded cool though and were fun in a straight line. I keep all my cars bone stock (the...
  39. Burns

    Car ?'s

    I am also of the opinion that buying a stock high HP car and keeping that way is the way to go. All the drive train parts have been assembled with that HP/Torque in mind, and when you start increasing the HP/Torque, it causes stock parts, that are still in the system, to go past tolerances and...
  40. Burns

    Car ?'s

    Indeed, it would be hard to trust a vehicle from a dealer, for such things, as they probably don't know for certain what kind of oil is in it, either (unless an oil change is part of the sale). As for the F type, what do they recommend? I would guess that you could at least go 5k on full synth...